St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-01-08
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
| FREDERICK WITTRoCK, W. w. Haight,
Thos. Weaver, Edward Kinney and Oscar
| Cook are the names of the quintette ar
| rested in connection with the Frisco ex-
press robbery.
JOHN DAw, a farmer, living on the out
skirts of Mitchell, Ont, was gored to deat tn
| by bull on the 9th. His wife ran out to
| the barnyard, and on seeing the bleeding
form of her husband on the ground, fell
dead.
Two of the officers and two of the cadets
convicted of cons piracy against the present
Bulgarian regency We're sentenced on the
27th the former to two months imprison-
ment each, and the latter each to two
years imprisonment.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made to
blow up a church at Lyons, n. Y, with
dynamite, but nervy policeman put out
the fuse.
AUGUSTUS PEcH1T, while demented,
hanged himself near Putnam, Conn, on
the 2Sth.
FIRE on the 2Sth destroyed the steamers
City of Natchez and R. S. Hayes at the
Cairo 0ll.) wharf.
THOMAS FORD attempted suicide at Kan
sas City, Mo, on the 2Sth, because he was
Christmas presents.
THE bodies of John Johnson and John
Gibson, the firemen who lost their lives in
the theater fire atPhiladelphia, on the 27th
were recovered on the 2Sth.
Mrs. HESDRICKsoN, of Middleton, O.,
while showing a neighbor, on the 2Sth,
how she would treat tramps, accidentally
shot and killed her five ear-old daughter.
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Jasper Smith, living near Lehrsville, Pa,
shot and fatally wounded a burglar who
forced an entrance to her bedroom.
OwISG to the illness of Judge Pratt,
hearing of the motion for new trial for
ex-Alderman McQuade in New York, was
postponed from the 2Sth to the 30th.
JOHN ELoA, JR., in Jail at Arcadia, La,
charged with the murder of John Lavelle,
on the night of December "a, was taken
out of jail on the night of the 27th and
hanged.
Mrs. JOHN BURKE, of Scranton, Pa,
while gong up stairs on the night of the
eth with lighted lamp fell to the bottom
and was stunned. The lamp exploded and
set her clothes on fire. Before she could
be rescued she was burned almost to
crisp.
FIRE broke out on the 2Sth in the build
ing occupied by the Detroit, mich. Alaska
Sock Company, and by hard work was
confined to the building Several girls in
the third story narrowly escaped with
their lives. Loss, 1000; insurance, ST.
500
REV. G. B. SCALES, of East Lynn. ILL.,,
who ran away with Miss Matthews, leav-
ing his wife and five children behind, was
arrested at London, Ont, on the 18th. The
parties concerned consented to go back in
charge of detective.
THE door of the post Office at Eyeter, N.
H., was pried open with a spike on the
night of the 9th, the safe blown open and
robbed of steel chest containing several
hundred dollars worth of stamps besides
money and valuables.
THE safe in the post-office at W ellsworth
O., was blown open on the night of the
9th, and about five hundred dollars in
m oney, sixty dollars in stamps and two
checks were taken.
Two of the participants in the great ex-
press robbery have squealed ON Fother-
ingham, stating that he was to receive
$4,000 for allowing himself to be robbed
in the manner he was. A large additional
sum of the stolen money. has been recov-
cred, and the Pinkertons think they will
ultimately secure the greater portion of
the amount stolen.
AN entire block of buildings at Green's
burg, Pa, was burned on the Goth.
THOMAS LAScHAS, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
stabbed his wife on the Goth so that it was
thought she would die.
WILLIAM HUTTON, a farmer of Fillmore
County, Mimi, was bunkoed out of $1,000
at New Y ork on the Goth.
THE steamer Sir John was burned off st.
J ohm, N. B., on the Goth, and five persons
were fatally Injured by fire and one was
drowned.
R. t. MILLER and his son was indicted
by the grand jury Of Tazewel County, W.
Va, on the 80 tn for having set fire to their
hotel at Pocahontas last October George
and Charles Baker, two worthy young men
of Pocahontas, were burned to death in the
hotel at the time of the fire.
MISCELLANEOUS.